José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda or simply José Rizal is widely considered the Philippines’ national hero, although no law declares him or anyone else as such. | RuelSDeVera /PDI
He even has his own holiday, the just recent 126th commemoration of Rizal Day on Dec. 30, when he was executed by firing squad in 1896 at the age of 35.
Ocampo has written the bestselling series of books compiling his columns, the top-selling being the first book, with the revealing title, “Rizal Without the Overcoat.”In a recent column, Ocampo points out why this kind of writing is important, why one should read Rizal’s work beyond the two novels: “Rizal wrote way more than these; his compiled writings fill 25 printed volumes. We have a national hero who wrote a lot for a nation that does not read him.
Torico Co. Ltd. publisher Takuro Ando once noticed a statue of Rizal in Hibiya Park and asked why there was a statue of a Filipino in Japan. So Torico published the Rizal manga, written by Takahiro Matsui and illustrated by Ryo Kanno, on the sukima.me site in Japanese and the manga.club site in English. The manga was released online on June 19, 2018, Rizal’s 157th birth anniversary.
The perfect symbol of young Filipinos embracing Rizal would be Rizal wearing sunglasses, the signature of the design studio that championed it, Team Manila.
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